Stephen Hampshire
@shampshire.bsky.social
Customers, psychology, music, history...
I quite often wish I loved anything the way Beatles dudes love the Beatles.
Now I've gone through all my Beatles albums in a row for my vinyl thread and watched all the new Anthology edits I really want there to be even more Beatles stuff and there isn't and that is sad.
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I quite often wish I loved anything the way Beatles dudes love the Beatles.
The bar lady at the town hall is worried that Plague of Angels plus a massive organ may be loud. I certainly hope so ;)
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The bar lady at the town hall is worried that Plague of Angels plus a massive organ may be loud. I certainly hope so ;)
Well isn’t that a beautiful thing? (And I wish everyone thought this hard about packaging books for transit!)
December 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Well isn’t that a beautiful thing? (And I wish everyone thought this hard about packaging books for transit!)
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I love Joe Root.
December 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I love Joe Root.
The ongoing attempt to conflate AI with LLMs is getting me madder and madder. AI is great. LLMs are a vacuous parlour trick designed by charlatans to bamboozle simpletons.
November 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The ongoing attempt to conflate AI with LLMs is getting me madder and madder. AI is great. LLMs are a vacuous parlour trick designed by charlatans to bamboozle simpletons.
Now it’s Christmas!
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Now it’s Christmas!
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Dutch avant-garde painter Jacoba van Heemskerck, Forest, 1913.
The pioneering Expressionist artist also worked in stained glass, perhaps reflected in her painting style #womensart
The pioneering Expressionist artist also worked in stained glass, perhaps reflected in her painting style #womensart
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Dutch avant-garde painter Jacoba van Heemskerck, Forest, 1913.
The pioneering Expressionist artist also worked in stained glass, perhaps reflected in her painting style #womensart
The pioneering Expressionist artist also worked in stained glass, perhaps reflected in her painting style #womensart
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Man, just the names of these books fires a wave of nostalgia in me so powerful I'm almost in tears.
Out next week! The 30th anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's Pollen, with a new intro by Aliya Whiteley and a new afterword by Jeff.
Looking smart and cool alongside the 30th anniversary edition of Vurt with a new intro by @adamroberts.bsky.social and a new afterword by Jeff.
Looking smart and cool alongside the 30th anniversary edition of Vurt with a new intro by @adamroberts.bsky.social and a new afterword by Jeff.
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Man, just the names of these books fires a wave of nostalgia in me so powerful I'm almost in tears.
Genius.
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Genius.
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I just don’t understand why Labour is actively hostile towards universities. With the Tories, it was obvious: better educated people are less likely to vote Tory. But with Labour, it’s an act of self-harm as well as gross stupidity.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I just don’t understand why Labour is actively hostile towards universities. With the Tories, it was obvious: better educated people are less likely to vote Tory. But with Labour, it’s an act of self-harm as well as gross stupidity.
I suspect this tells you more about the weaknesses of survey research for finding out about things people don't really understand than it does about people's moral outlook.
One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds
One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds
Senior UK police officer says AI is accelerating violence against women and girls and that technology companies are complicit
One in four people think there is nothing wrong with creating and sharing sexual deepfakes, or they feel neutral about it, even when the person depicted has not consented, according to a police-commissioned survey.
The findings prompted a senior police officer to warn that the use of AI is accelerating an epidemic in violence against women and girls (VAWG), and that technology companies are complicit in this abuse. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I suspect this tells you more about the weaknesses of survey research for finding out about things people don't really understand than it does about people's moral outlook.
Tfw you finally get round to doing a small DIY job you’ve been putting off for a year and it takes you less than a minute.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Tfw you finally get round to doing a small DIY job you’ve been putting off for a year and it takes you less than a minute.
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Hydrology (DiN94) is out on all streaming platforms and good record shops today via @ianboddy.bsky.social
Worldwide customers can save on postage by buying from these places
EU www.groove.nl/shop/loula-y...
USA din7d.bandcamp.com/album/hydrol...
🌊🌊🌊🌊
Worldwide customers can save on postage by buying from these places
EU www.groove.nl/shop/loula-y...
USA din7d.bandcamp.com/album/hydrol...
🌊🌊🌊🌊
Hydrology (DiN94), by Loula Yorke
6 track album
dinrecords.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Hydrology (DiN94) is out on all streaming platforms and good record shops today via @ianboddy.bsky.social
Worldwide customers can save on postage by buying from these places
EU www.groove.nl/shop/loula-y...
USA din7d.bandcamp.com/album/hydrol...
🌊🌊🌊🌊
Worldwide customers can save on postage by buying from these places
EU www.groove.nl/shop/loula-y...
USA din7d.bandcamp.com/album/hydrol...
🌊🌊🌊🌊
Ashes cricket, eh? What a day. I may need some coffee.
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Ashes cricket, eh? What a day. I may need some coffee.
I do love the Ashes, but this is very late/early.
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I do love the Ashes, but this is very late/early.
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Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
Great explanation of why mass untargeted screening does more harm than good.
Today's post is all about why Direct-to-Consumer Lab testing companies, the ones that offer "whole body scans" and "complete blood panels" are not worth your time or money.
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...
Direct-to-Consumer Lab Results are Probably Wrong
Doctors rely on the information they have about you to target medical tests at people most likely to be sick. This means that a positive test result from a test ordered by your doctor is probably corr...
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Great explanation of why mass untargeted screening does more harm than good.
Finally got round to making boterkoek with the mix I got from Molen de Roos in Delft ages ago. Smells amazing!
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Finally got round to making boterkoek with the mix I got from Molen de Roos in Delft ages ago. Smells amazing!
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
Every time a journalist writes “Labour” instead of “the government” they reveal an awful lot about themselves.
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Every time a journalist writes “Labour” instead of “the government” they reveal an awful lot about themselves.
This is gorgeous. Really good example of how well-crafted ambient can draw you in to notice hidden details.
qd42 - 36 - A Warm Static Sphere - out now!
Delighted to say that next in the quiet details series is one of the most loved artists in modern ambient music, Dennis Huddleston, here as 36
@3six.bsky.social
Out now on digital and limited CD Digital half price until 21st November
#musicsky
Delighted to say that next in the quiet details series is one of the most loved artists in modern ambient music, Dennis Huddleston, here as 36
@3six.bsky.social
Out now on digital and limited CD Digital half price until 21st November
#musicsky
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is gorgeous. Really good example of how well-crafted ambient can draw you in to notice hidden details.
Loving this. One of those songs I had to immediately play again as soon as it finished. lostmap.bandcamp.com/track/i-pass...
I Passed Your House, by Seamus Fogarty
track by Seamus Fogarty
lostmap.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Loving this. One of those songs I had to immediately play again as soon as it finished. lostmap.bandcamp.com/track/i-pass...
Post that is both thrilling and slightly alarming - the latest from @pictishtrail.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Post that is both thrilling and slightly alarming - the latest from @pictishtrail.bsky.social
Ok, conspiracy theory time. I reckon the Coke ad is actually human animated to *look* as uncanny valley and AI as possible to generate controversy.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Ok, conspiracy theory time. I reckon the Coke ad is actually human animated to *look* as uncanny valley and AI as possible to generate controversy.